On Tuesday 13 December 2011 19:09:19 you wrote:
> For QWidget based applications, you won't have an easy time of doing
> rotation on MeeGo. You'll have to use QWidget::render() into a QPixmap
> (or QImage), then draw that translated into your 'parent' widgets by
> overriding QWidget::paintEvent.
> 
> The API you refer to only works with Symbian, as far as I know (and,
> as a result of confusions like this, I've just proposed removing it
> from Qt 5:
> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2011-December/000860.htm
> l)
> 
> Alternatively, if you're working on Harmattan, you could use QML
> (which allows doing things like this a lot easier) - qt-components
> even handles the orientation for you. If this is MeeGo tablet UX (for
> whatever reason you'd be working on that nowdays), then I think
> meego-ux-components also handle that for you.

Hi

Thank you for clarifying this issue. I was hoping to find some generic API for 
handling mobile devices. I am using MeeGo simply because I prefer Linux, but 
the main target should be Windows. So as far as I understand there is no 
standard API for handling screen orientation.

regards
-- 
Bogdan Cristea
Software Engineer
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